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A Russian serviceman holds a flag during a military parade rehearsal in Red Square in Moscow. Maxim Shemetov/Reuters

Candles illuminate graves freshly decorated by family and friends, marking the Day of the Dead holiday at the cemetery in San Gregorio, Mexico, Thursday. The holiday honored the dead on Thursday, coinciding with All Saints Day and All Souls' Day on Friday. Alexandre Meneghini/AP

A Mahout, or handler, applies mustard oil on an eye of an elephant before starting off to provide safari rides to tourists at the Pobitora national park, about 34 miles east of Gauhati, India. Anupam Nath/AP

The Titusville High School Marching Band performs as the space shuttle Atlantis follows behind during a ceremony as the orbiter is moved to its new home in the Visitor's Center at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Joe Skipper/Reuters

Sub postmistress Penny Murphy holds an anniversary commemorative plaque as she stands with her husband Richard outside their post office in Sanquhar, Scotland, Friday. The post office which is recognized as the oldest continuously working post office in the world, celebrated its 300th anniversary. David Moir/Reuters

A worker's hands are covered with gunpowder as he makes fire crackers at a factory in Kolkata, India. Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters

An Afghan man waits for customers at his timber shop in Kabul, Afghanistan. Adnan Abidi/Reuters

An opposition activist sleeps inside an election precinct as election official scramble to tally votes for nearly a week in Kiev, Ukraine. Nearly a week after Ukraine's parliamentary election, officials on Friday still scrambled to tally votes in several key districts across the country, in what the opposition says is a clear example of widespread vote rigging by the ruling party. Sergei Chuzavkov/AP

Li Zijun of China competes during the ladies' short program at the Cup of China ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating in Shanghai. Carlos Barria/Reuters

Pakistani carpenter Mirza Ghulam Hussain puts the final touches on a horse cart wheel at his workshop in Lahore, Pakistan. K.M. Chaudary/AP

People travel in a bus from Manhattan back to the Brooklyn borough in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy in New York on Thursday. Carlo Allegri/Reuters

An Indian man Shyam Lal shaves at his doorstep as his wife sits outdoor at an impoverished neighborhood in New Delhi, India. Altaf Qadri/AP

Children of members of the Mortgage Victims' Platform (PAH) play with a banner that reads 'Bankia, to the bench' as protesters line up outside the Bank of Spain in Madrid. Susana Vera/Reuters

Musicians perform in front of graves at the Nueva Esperanza cemetery during Day of the Dead celebrations in Villa Maria, Lima, Thursday. Each year people visit the cemetery, one of Latin America's largest, to honor the dead. Enrique Castro-Mendivil/Reuters

A child stands as followers of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr pray together in the Sadr City neighborhood in Baghdad, Iraq. Karim Kadim/AP

Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel of Germany looks as a technician cleans his helmet in the pits during the second free practice at the Yas Marina racetrack in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Luca Bruno/AP

Dennis Enarson of the US performs with his BMX bike during a training session at The Grand Palais in Paris. Francois Mori/AP

Men dressed in regional traditional costumes stand before the annual horse race to commemorate the Day of the Dead on All Saints Day at the village of Todos Los Santos Cuchumatan in the Huehuetenango region, 193 miles west of Guatemala City, on Thursday. Jorge Dan Lopez/Reuters

US and Afghan soldiers take a knee near a US Army Chinook during an operation near the town of Walli Was in Paktika province on Thursday. Goran Tomasevic/Reuters

President Barack Obama addresses the crowd at a campaign event inside a very dusty building at the Franklin County fairgrounds in Hilliard, Ohio. Larry Downing/Reuters

Supporters reach out to Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney as he arrives to campaign stop at the Wisconsin Products Pavilion at State Fair Park in West Allis, Wis. Charles Dharapak/AP

San Diego Chargers Antonio Gates (l.) and teammate Darrell Stuckey stand in the tunnel before going on the field during their NFL football game in San Diego, Calif., Thursday. Mike Blake/Reuters